Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

McAfee update breaks Windows XP computers

First it was Nvidia’s drivers with the fan control speed issues and now it’s McAfee and their XP killing update. It seems like a lot of company updates are hitting the fan.

Fake Security Suite in the wild

A fake version of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), Redmond’s free antivirus program is quietly spreading under the guise of the original’s brand recognition.  The rogue “antivirus” software is called Security Essentials 2010.

How to Remove Antivirus 2009

Most of us has experience with Malware but this strain simply takes the cake. It’s a rogue application that disguises itself as an antivirus, tells you that your computer is infected as asks you to pay the guy who created it to remove it.

How to remove JARGON.VBS

I’ve encountered this virus/malware the other day and while it was fairly easy to remove, I thought it would be useful to provide instructions on how to remove jargon.vbs. A quick search on GOOG turned out several useless results (okay, a lot of useless results) so I thought of doing my part to help. Here’s [...]